Chinese furniture is a portion of Chinese culture, Chinese furniture is “the wooden beautiful poem”. Chinese furniture history is long, establish own system, have intense Chinese style.

No matter clumsy furniture of Shang dynasty and Chou dynasty, romantic short furniture (the Chun and Qiu Period or the Warring States Period) or elegant high furniture (the Northern and Southern Dynasties Period), magnificent furniture of high and low (Sui and Tang dynasties), succinct high furniture (Sung and Yuan dynasty period), but also exquisite Ming dynasty type furniture, elegant Qing dynasty type furniture…… Attract the Chinese and Occidental with its beautiful eternal glamour.

The value of the Chinese furniture lies in that it condense artistic style of different historical period, reflect the different historical period’s production development, custom, idea consciousness, aesthetics interest, the development levels of science and technology synthetically. The history that mankind use furniture is very far-off, the earliest and intact furniture remains that we find up until now belong to the Warring States era. The ancient furniture which people can see now, is mainly the products of the Ming and Qing Dynasty.

Ming Dynasty was the golden age in Chinese furniture history. Model, decorating, craft, material of the furniture, etc. of this period, all these has already become very perfect, have refined and succinct era characteristics, is known as “Ming dynasty type furniture”; Compared with furniture of Ming Dynasty, the Qing dynasty type furniture have these characteristic: ornamental is magnificent, workmanship is exquisite, full of variety. Especially the palace furniture of Qing dynasty period, the material is excellent, the craft is precise, all these reach to the utmost. The Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture reflect craft value, extremely high value, history value, culture and art appreciation value of the Chinese furniture typically.

As a result of the national characteristics, custom, geography climate, different production technique and environment influence, the ancient traditional Chinese furniture is different from occidental furniture. The Chinese furniture has oriental artistic style. So, the Chinese furniture not only is the furniture, but also is the work of art that can be collected.